I take the floor here during special orders to bring to the attention of my colleagues a very important little pamphlet entitled ``NFIB, Small Business Agenda.'' NFIB, of course, standing for the National Federation of Independent Businesses, which is the largest nationwide small business advocacy organization in the country, with over 600,000 members. The NFIB has become a very important part, an integral part of our legislative efforts in Washington. I just wanted to bring that to my colleagues, because I will take time on future occasions under special orders to go into more detail on each one of these points. But I do want to stress to my colleagues the legislative priorities of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, as we proceed with the Contract with America for the first 100 days, and then as we develop and deliberate a legislative agenda for the second and third 100 days. The pamphlet starts out by saying, ``America's small business owners have heard enough talk about what is good for the country. Now they want results.…
Frank Riggs: “I take the floor here during special orders to bring to the attention of my colleagues a very important little pamphlet…”
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Discussing the legislative priorities of the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
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